Habitat restoration
The Arkansas Ecological Services Field Office and Arkansas State Parks partnered to build 11 gates at Devil’s Den State Park on crevices that act as hibernacula for Ozark big-eared bats, Indiana bats, tri-colored bats and big brown bats. Prior to gating the colonies experienced extensive human disturbance of hibernating bats. The first-year post gating, Ozark big-eared bat use of gated crevices increased by over 80%.